Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Regional Police of the MIA have arrested four people in suspicion of money extortion. According to the investigation, Shota Japaridze, Davit Japaridze, who was the head of the culture department of the Mestia municipal government, chief engineer of the Energo-Pro-Georgia JSC Mestia...
The Jean de Vienne, a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale is in Batumi port since yesterday. Within the friendly visit, Georgian and French sailors performed joint marine trainings in Batumi today. Ambassador of France Eric Fournier was attending the exercises in Batumi...
Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance met with representatives of Diplomatic Corps to introduce them ongoing Penitentiary Healthcare reform and future plans. As Khatuna Kalmakhelidze mentioned, at the meeting she highlighted those issues in which the Ministry may receive assistance from...
Tbilisi City Court has sent footballer Giorgi Demetradze to custody for two months. The judge rejected the motion of the lawyer to bail out the sportsman. Along with Demetradze, another person involved in the scandalous money-extortion case, Giorgi Gagnidze has been also sent to custody. Crime...
Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the son of Georgia`s first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia has been sent to custody, even though he was serving his term for attempt of premeditated murder in the prison jail. Tsotne`s lawyer Kety Bekauri stated that the accused did not attend the court hearing. He was presented...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said the Kremlin is prepared for `extensive` dialogue with Georgia even amid the split ties with Georgia. `Even now having no direct diplomatic ties and when Russian interests in Georgia and Georgian interests in Russia are represented by Switzerland, we` re...
CNN - Ten Russian agents, who were expelled from the United States for intelligence gathering, were expected to arrive in Vienna, Austria, Friday morning on a chartered flight, a U.S. federal law enforcement official said. U.S. Marshals were on board the flight paid for by the U.S. government that left...
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has called upon the Russian Federation to fulfil the terms of the August 2008 six-point ceasefire document once again. The migration committee held in the OSCE head office yesterday, discussed the resolution, which refers to unconditional repatriation of IDPs to their...
The European Union`s diplomatic director, Catherine Ashton, on Thursday welcomed Georgia`s plan for rapprochement with the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, calling it a `significant step forward. On Saturday, the Georgian government approved a seven-point strategy for `engagement through...
The national frigate of France "Jean De Vien' has entered the Batumi port earlier this afternoon. The ceremony was attended by Batumi mayor Robert Chkhaidze, the leadership of the coastal guard of Georgia, and representatives of the Embassy of France to Georgia. Anthems of France and Georgia...
A 16 year-old boy drowned in the lake in Dzevera village, Gori district today. Irakli Jolbordi was swimming in the lake together with his friends, when his heart failed. The eyewitnesses called for rescuers immediately, who found the boy in a few minutes, but they failed to save him. The boy...
The leader of the Movement for Fair Georgia, Zurab Noghaideli asserts the government wanted to use businessman and banker, Vano Chkhartishvili as a witness in order to plan a special operation of his detention. Noghaideli briefed in this regard today and said that Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili...
Famous Georgian composer Bidzina Kvernadze died in the age of 82 after long illness today. The work of great composer covered all genres of music- movie, theatre, ballet, opera, orchestra compositions, piano conertos, and modern songs. Bidzina Kvernadze was born on July 29, 1928 in the city of Sighnaghi....
Tbilisi Main Department and the Counter-terrorist Centre of the Interior Ministry carried out a special operation and arrested famous Georgian footballer Giorgi Demetradze in suspicion of money extortion. Demetradze and two other persons, Davit Gagnidze and Kakha Misireli, have been also arrested for...
A state minister, town mayor and six others from northern Mexico were killed on Wednesday when their small plane crashed and burst into flames most likely due to a mechanical failure, the state government said. The minister for public works in Coahuila state, Horacio del Bosque, and the mayor of the...
